Nearly 42 million people are facing a November with no SNAP benefits to help with the cost of food. It's driving them to ask ...

On social media, families are recounting their SNAP stories — and airing their worries amid the government shutdown and funding freeze. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: kirstenleah98/TikTok, ...

Three weeks after former House Speaker Michael Madigan reported to federal prison, his lawyers have filed a long-awaited ...

All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.

Early on a Friday morning in late August, a group of Springfield seniors sat around a table outside Sangamon Towers, the apartment building they call home. It was a cool morning, out of the norm for ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to make SNAP payments Oct. 31; Trump also ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing after a pause of more than three decades.

Helen Atkinson-Barnes, director of prevention programming of the Abuse in Later Life program launched at The Retreat in ...

Every year, the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence releases its homicide report. Their report for 2024 shows a 14% ...

PA Nursing Home Lawyers has announced an expansion of its legal focus to encompass a broader range of elder abuse and neglect cases across Pennsylvania. The initiative underscores the firm’s ...